Re-Present the History of Global Civilization with Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as the Coordinate Center

By Zhai Yuzhong (翟玉忠) 2018-03-01

I hope we Chinese will free ourselves from the limit of the Western perspective and learn to view the world from the standpoint in the outer space high above us. Then we will see that it is none other than the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Earth’s third pole, that is the dividing point between different human civilizations... When you tour through the mountains and rivers all over the earth, looking again into the global mosaic of diverse ethnic cultures with a heart full of brotherly feelings, you will find a totally different world and that will be a new start of mankind’s future...

5 New Silk Road Projects That Will Alter Your View Of How The World Works

By Wade Shepard 2018-03-19

The Biggest Lies About the 2nd Amendment Going Around in 2018

By Eric Schaal 2018-03-18

Britain’s Insane Cold War Dramatics

By strategic-culture.org 2018-03-17

The Limits of Free Markets, Both Economic and Intellectual

By DAVID SCHULTZ 2018-03-17

...economists have described unregulated markets as producing externalities such as pollution or monopolies. Others see externalities to include the mal-distributions of wealth and income in the world or racial and gender discrimination.... As to the unregulated market of ideas, falsity or fake news spreads more rapidly than truth on-line... The challenge is how both to preserve the marketplace of ideas from destroying itself while at the same time preventing the economic marketplace from destroying itself and corrupting the marketplace of ideas.

Judge: Trump administration violated law over smog findings

By Sudhin Thanawala, AP 2018-03-17

Will Russia Wake Up?

By Paul Craig Roberts 2018-03-16

Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, The Fight Over the Criminalization of Immigrants

By Aviva Chomsky 2018-03-16

While political realism demands that battles be fought for the rights of particular groups of immigrants, it’s no less important to challenge the looming narrative of immigrant criminalization and to refuse to assume that the larger war has already been lost. In the end, isn’t it time to challenge the notion that people in general, and immigrants in particular, can be easily divided into deserving good guys and undeserving bad guys?

On anniversary, pope's predecessor hits out at conservatives' 'stupid prejudice'

By Philip Pullella ,Reuters 2018-03-15

Are "social problems such as climate change, economic inequality and migration" not "moral issues"?! -- The New Legalist editor